English Painters and Their Impact on Art History
Explore the contributions of renowned English painters such as William Hogarth, Sir Joshua Reynolds, Thomas Gainsborough, John Constable, and Joseph Turner. Learn how these artists elevated English pictorial art to new heights and influenced the development of modern landscape and portrait painting.
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Yana Linik Form 10 School of Lypyny
William Hogarth (1697-1764) was the first great English painter who raised English pictorial art to a high level of importance. He was a man of remarkably individual character and thought. W. Hogarth had friends among famous English writers J. Swift, H. Filding. He was the first English painter who brought painting closer to literature and theatre.
Sir Joshua Reynolds (1723 1792), the first President of the Royal Academy of Arts, was not only a painter but the founder of the academic principles of the "British school". Reynolds was the most outstanding portraitist of the 18th century. In his pictures he did not only paint portraits but produced characters.
Thomas Gainsborough (1727 1788) was a brilliant portrait painter. A good amateur violinist and a lover of the drama, he was an artistic person. T. Gainsborough is the creator of the great English school of landscape painting. His great love for the English country and his delicate understanding of nature are felt in his pictures
John Constable is one of the greatest landscape painters. He was the first landscape painter who considered that every painter should make his sketches direct from nature, which is working in the open air. Constable was a realist. The most famous of his works are Flatford Mill , The white horse , Waterloo Bridge and others. Constable may truly be considered the father of modern landscape painting.
Another famous English painter was Joseph Turner (1775 1851), whose business was to paint the light. He proved that with the help of light it is, possible to show qualities of any subject. Turner was a representative of Romanticism. Turner's "The Shipwreck", "Burning of the Houses of Parliament" and "Snow Storm" are masterpieces of the great artist.
